Incumbent Sabrina Bazzo took an slim lead in the race for the San Diego Unified School District board in District A with 50.3% to opposing candidate Crystal Trull‘s 49.7%.
Bazzo is running for reelection against Trull, a nonprofit leader and lecturer at the University of San Diego.
In 2020, both candidates ran for the same seat.
With 62% of the vote counted, only 316 votes separated the two candidates on Wednesday morning.
District D incumbent Richard Barrera, who was first elected in 2008 and then reelected in 2012, 2016 and 2020, ran unopposed. District E incumbent Sharon Whitehurst-Payne also ran unopposed.
Bazzo, who works for a nonprofit that provides training for family physicians and volunteers at Mira Mesa School, is endorsed by the San Diego Education Association, county Democratic party and City Council members Kent Lee and Marni Von Wilpert.
Trull is endorsed by the county’s Republican party, County Supervisor Joel Anderson and Reform California, a political action committee opposed to tax increases.
Updated at 7:10 a.m., Nov. 6, 2024